PhD Student Funding
The College of Nursing offers funding to admitted full-time PhD students on a limited and competitive basis. The primary funding opportunities available to admitted students include:
- Fellowships offered through the Graduate School
- Faculty nominate eligible applicants for University and Enrichment Fellowships. Please visit the Graduate Fellowships webpage to learn more about College of Nursing requirements.
- Visit the Graduate School website to learn more about university requirements.
- If you are interested in being nominated for a Graduate School Fellowship, please apply by the noted October deadline.
- College of Nursing PhD Scholars
- This award covers up to four years of tuition and instructional fees*, stipend, and health insurance contingent on satisfactory academic progress and performance as a Graduate Research/Teaching Associate. Scholars have a 20-hour weekly work requirement.
- Nursing Faculty Loan Program (NFLP)
- Doctoral students are eligible to apply for funds (pending availability) through the Nursing Faculty Loan Program (NFLP). The NFLP is funded by the United States Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and is designed to increase the number of nursing faculty in the United States. To learn more about this opportunity, please visit our loans webpage.
PhD students are required to submit at least one external grant during the program to support their dissertation research. Students receive grant-writing instruction during Year 1. Our students are successful in obtaining pre-doctoral Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (F31) and in obtaining foundations awards from a variety of professional organizations and research sponsors.
Funding offers are communicated shortly after admission decisions are released.
*Fees not covered by the PhD Scholars funding include: student activity fee, graduate nursing program fee, COTA bus fee, student legal services annual fee, recreational fee and student union fee.
